The Prose Edda: Tales from Norse MythologyCourier Corporation, 7 бер. 2012 р. - 288 стор. Gods and giants bestride these ancient tales, in which warrior queens and noble heroes battle with elves, dwarves, and fearsome monsters. Spanning the dawn of the world's creation to its fiery destruction, these gripping Norse legends chronicle the triumphs and tragedies of a lost era. Resounding with a poetic instinct for the picturesque, the dramatic, and the human, they form vivid portraits of the characters' personalities. They also depict the comic and disastrous results of ambition, passion, and destiny. The wellspring of modern knowledge of Norse mythology, these sagas preserved the Vikings' narrative style from an invading European influence. Iceland's great literary genius, Snorri Sturluson (1179–1241), combined oral traditions, genealogical records, and old songs to immortalize his country's glorious past. Edda means "poetic art," and Sturluson's guidebook for Icelandic poets has been a timeless inspiration for generations of writers around the world, including Wagner, Borges, and Tolkien. |
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... straightway on the soil which is uppermost on the earth . Boulders and stones they likened to the teeth and bones of living beings . Thus they recognized that the earth was quick , and had life with some manner of nature of its own ...
... straightway on the soil which is uppermost on the earth . Boulders and stones they likened to the teeth and bones of living beings . Thus they recognized that the earth was quick , and had life with some manner of nature of its own ...
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... straightway the door closed itself on his heels . There he saw a great room and much people , some with games , some drinking ; and some had weapons and were fighting . Then he looked about him , and thought unbelievable many things ...
... straightway the door closed itself on his heels . There he saw a great room and much people , some with games , some drinking ; and some had weapons and were fighting . Then he looked about him , and thought unbelievable many things ...
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... Straightway after the rime dripped , there sprang from it the cow called Audumla ; four streams of milk ran from her udders , and she nourished Ymir . " Then asked Gangleri : " Where- withal was the cow nourished ? " And Hárr made ...
... Straightway after the rime dripped , there sprang from it the cow called Audumla ; four streams of milk ran from her udders , and she nourished Ymir . " Then asked Gangleri : " Where- withal was the cow nourished ? " And Hárr made ...
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... straightway he cast the serpent into the deep sea , where he lies about all the land ; and this serpent grew so greatly that he lies in the midst of the ocean encompass- ing all the land , and bites upon his own tail . Hel he cast into ...
... straightway he cast the serpent into the deep sea , where he lies about all the land ; and this serpent grew so greatly that he lies in the midst of the ocean encompass- ing all the land , and bites upon his own tail . Hel he cast into ...
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